Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences, cilt.4, sa.4, ss.63-78, 2022 (ESCI)
Facility layout planning is an indispensable part of the manufacturing and service operations. In the literature, there are two main different approaches for the solution of facility layout problem: While the first one aims to minimize both total transportation and assignment costs in a quantitative way, the second one aims to maximize the closeness relationship in a more qualitative way. In this study, we use both of these approaches to model a multi-objective facility layout optimization problem depending on a Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) formulation.